New York has put an end to religious exemptions. From a NYT article published two weeks ago::
You can seroconvert for one vaccine and not another.
Shingles appears on its own due to the virus reappearing from its hiding place within your body (after a chicken pox infection), rather than exposure to the virus from someone else.
You’ve got that wrong. If you’ve never had chicken pox, you can get it after being exposed to someone with shingles. Being exposed to someone with chickenpox would result in getting chickenpox if you were not immune.
Shingles occurs down the line in people who once had chicken pox.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC2722564
@TheGreyKing - does the NYS law cover private and religious schools too?
Looks like it is for everyone:
"New York State (NYS) Public Health Law Section 2164 and New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) Title 10, Subpart 66-1 require every student entering or attending public, private or parochial school in New York State (NYS) to be immune to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, varicella and meningococcal in accordance with Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations. In the 2019-20 school year, meningococcal immunization is required for grades 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12.
Every child in day care, Head Start, nursery school or prekindergarten in NYS must be immune to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, varicella, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and pneumococcal disease.
Public Health Law Section 2164 provides for medical exemptions to immunization."
@twoinanddone - We do not have any outbreaks. We are just following the law and banning anyone who was not vaccinated.
@greenwitch - Yes, all schools.
The other interesting thing is how New York is handling “home schooling.” Parents do not have the option of banding together to home school one another’s children. If you are educating anyone other than your own kid, it will be treated as a “school” and everyone will be expected to be vaccinated. So, the choice is to vaccinate your kid or homeschool your kid alone at home.
I wish more states would follow this policy/practice. Right now, I think there are a only a handful, but CT getting on board.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/09/16/californias-new-vaccine-laws-should-be-model-all-states-14286
Michigan needs to. Something like 70 schools in our tri-county area are less than 75% vaccinated.
Where did you find this information? NYSED released a [url=https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/schools/school_vaccines/docs/2019-08_vaccination_requirements_faq.pdf]document[/url] recently that states the homeschool law using the same language that it has for the last ~20 years:
So NYS parents can homeschool their children and provide group instruction as long as it’s not for the majority of their homeschool program. There is no law requiring them to be immunized or homeschool at home alone.
Should warning signs about measles, etc. with the biohazard symbol be placed in front of these schools?
Florida has pretty strict rules and I couldn’t send my kids to school until they’d been to the county health department and had their vaccinations reviewed and transferred to a special Florida card. The card they’d had since birth was no good, had to be on a Florida card/sheet.
The exception to this is immigrant children placed in the state under federal law. They can go to school immediately! I don’t think there are a lot of objections to the vaccination requirements, but they do not have to be fully vaccinated and can go to school immediately.
@austinmshauri - because I am a school administrator in NYS. I heard from our superintendent of schools, who called the administrators in our district together and explained to us the new laws and what we would need to do and how families had been reacting so far in their discussions with him.
NYS vaccination laws apply to nonpublic schools as well. So your last sentence in the quote is key. Vaccination requirements apply to any “school.”
But (a) do those immigrant kids have to eventually get their vaccines, and (b) do their parents tend to want their kids to get their vaccines anyway (if they know about what is available)?
Mississippi has had very tough vaccination laws for ages!!! It is good that the rest of the country is catching up!!!
It’s interesting that the states with the toughest vaccination laws are literally all over the map. Southern, Northern, East Coast, West Coast, blue states, red states, high and low on the income scale.
Enough idiots in Maine signed a petition that our newly-passed vaccination law will be up for a citizens’ referendum vote. I am so mad.
@TheGreyKing, that doesn’t mean NYS homeschooled students have to be taught at home alone.
We had a kid show up, on the last day he would be allowed in school without vaccination, wearing a shirt that said, “I’m being kicked out of school for my beliefs.”
Tonight I heard that one town not far from us had an anti-vaccination rally over this issue.
I don’t think there is a lot of resistance to getting vaccinated, but I was just angry that my kids, who were fully vaccinated and I had proof, missed a few more days of school and I missed a day of work to take them to the county health department to get the vaccinations recorded on the official Florida form. If we’d been undocumented immigrants they could have started school immediately under federal law.
The county health department was about 45 minutes away from the school (and where we lived) and there was no public transportation to get there. They would have missed weeks of school if I hadn’t been able to rent a car while waiting for our car to be shipped.